By Charley Cameron / Source: Inhabitat

Electric bikes an increasingly popular way to get commuters out of the car and onto a greener mode of transportation but, the transition comes at a pretty high price. With that in mind electric bike company EVELO created the Omni Wheel, which transforms ones existing bicycle into an e-bike in just 30 minutes, and for half the cost of a new electric bike.

EVELO co-founder Boris Mordkovich explained to us that since the inception of the electric bicycle company he’s noticed two trends. Firstly, a lot of people already have a bike, and even those who rarely use theirs are often hesitant to buy a second, new bike. The other prohibitive factor to adopting e-cycling is cost—new bikes cost in the region of $2000.

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